Suchergebnisse

Das Thema dieser Arbeit ist der bevorstehende EU-Austritt Großbritanniens. Es ist in der europäischen Geschichte einzigartig, dass ein Mitgliedstaat aus der Union austritt. Großbritannien sowie die Europäische Union stehen damit vor großen Herausforderungen. Diese Diplomarbeit gibt zuerst einen kurzen geschichtlichen Überblick über das britische Verhältnis zur EU sowie über den Ablauf des Referendums. Im Anschluss wird dargelegt, wie die zukünftigen Beziehungen ausgestaltet sein könnten. Ein wichtiger Teil dieser Arbeit widmet sich auch der Problematik Schottlands und Nordirlands als Teil des Vereinigten Königreichs. Schlussendlich werden auch noch die Auswirkungen des Brexits auf die EU behandelt. ; eingereicht von Lucke Rudolph Alexander ; Universität Linz, Diplomarbeit, 2017 ; (VLID)2434773

In Minnesota ex rel. Pearson v. Probate County of Ramsey County, Kansas v. Hendricks, Seling v. Young, and Kansas v. Crane, the U.S. Supreme Court decided cases pertaining to civil commitment of sex offenders to mental institutions. At first, the earliest case involved whether an offender, classified as a psychopathic personality, could be committed from the streets to a mental institution. More contemporary cases posed the question of whether a prisoner, diagnosed as a violent sexual predator or having an antisocial personality disorder, could be civilly committed to a mental health facility after this prisoner had served his entire sentence and was about to be released. For both questions, the Court answered in the affirmative. The Court's rulings that incarcerated sex offenders nearing release may be civilly committed to a mental health facility have potentially ominous implications for both mental health and criminal justice policy.

In the 1930s, several states provided civil commitment in mental institutions for certain sex offenders. Civil commitment of these sex offenders abated after most states repealed their statutes in the 1960s. In the 1980s, however, these statutes returned, as outraged citizens deplored the offenses of repeated sex offenders. The author of this essay examines civil commitment statutes for sex offenders in Washington and Minnesota, two of the leading states in this area, as well as recent rulings from each state's Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of these statutes. Particularly, the author focuses on the psychiatric or mental health discussions by the justices in the majority in both state rulings. Furthermore, the author criticizes the legislatively defined mental abnormality statutes that sanction these commitments, proposes use of the ordinary civil commitment statutes for individuals who are seriously mentally ill, and concludes that sex offenders who do not meet the criteria for traditional civil commitment should be handled by the criminal justice system.